RESEARCH

•  The main topics of tobacco research
  - tobacco breeding of new tobacco cultivars with improved quality and resistance to diseases by means of conventional,
    biotechnology and cytogenetics-based methods
  - Nicotiana germplasm collection
  
  
•  The main topics of hop research
  - breeding of new resistant to diseases hop cultivars
  - hop germplasm collection
  
  
•  Optimizing in vitro conditions for obtaining plant secondary metabolities on solid media and in suspension cultures
  
  
•  Disease diagnostics, pathogen identification and assessment of plant protection agents effectiveness
  - characterization of Potato virus Y (PVY) with using techniques of molecular biology: RFLP, RT PCR, PCR, DNA sequencing
  
  
•  Studies of cultivated plants and pathogens with molecular biology and genetic engineering techniques
  
  
•  Improvement of production technology of selected cultivated plants (tobacco, hops, energetic plants)
  
  
•  Chemical analyses of selected secondary metabolites (alkaloids, resins and essential oils)
    by Gas-chromatography with Mass Spectrometry